... "Two pints o' poverty and a packet o' grift, please!" ...

So they're campaigning to win a local election on four vague pledges that they have no power or ability to deliver... No interest in local issues or the constituency whatsoever.

Majority of Labour-Linked Trade Unions Now Back Electoral Reform After Shop Workers Call for PR Keir Starmer has refused to back changing the voting system – but calls to do so are becoming difficult to ignore, Josiah Mortimer reports

"Majority of Labour-Linked Trade Unions Now Back Electoral Reform After Shop Workers Call for PR

Labour Leader Keir Starmer has refused to back changing the voting system"

From @josiahjourno.bsky.social for @bylinetimes.bsky.social in 2023

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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage

Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12
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The Government Published Dozens of Nude Photos in the Epstein Files

Apparently the Department of (In)Justice defines “victims” as the ultra-wealthy men, not the young girls they raped.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Reform UK’s silence on Epstein speaks volumes A politics that claims to defend women while refusing to confront the systems that harm them is not about protection. It's about strategy.

Do you hear that, coming from Nigel Farage? An unfamiliar sound: silence.

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@theleaduk.bsky.social

Design Firm That Donated £200,000 to Reform UK Owed £218,000 in Tax Authorities threatened to close down Interior Architecture Landscape due to unpaid taxes. The design firm still managed to make a major donation to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party. The firm said the…

Design Firm That Donated £200,000 to Reform UK Owed £218,000 in Tax

Trump: ‘We should take over the voting’ Trump, as usual, offered no evidence for any of his claims.

President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pretty clear this sort of conduct is a feature not a glitch

Nixon's worst day in office was 100x better than Trump's best day.

Drain the Swamp!

"I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." - Peter Thiel

Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.

An absolute enemy of humanity.

They all need to be reminded that if Farage becomes PM that child’s family will be charged for the treatment

🚨VERY IMPORTANT! Please contact your MP and ask them to attend the important secondary breast cancer debate in parliament THIS THURSDAY and speak up for people affected by the disease🙏

The Epstein files also make it clear why it is so very corrosive to society to allow the formation of a class so wealthy they never have to fear consequences for their actions, no matter how heinous.

Reform council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors | LBC The majority of staff, who will not be able to use the free parking facilities available to their senior colleagues, will still be expected to pay to park every day

Reform Kent council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillors

This is excellent. A clear analysis, simply expressed and based on clear evidence. The kind of thing, dare one say, that should be in a mainstream newspaper.

ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children to Take Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents.

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school.

Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools.

“I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

MS Now Panel Warns Don Lemon’s Arrest Was ‘Easy First Target’ In Larger Attack On Free Press "It's a shot across the bow, right, towards the free press, and it's, it's scary," "Fast Politics" host Molly Jong-Fast said.

"It's a shot across the bow, right, towards the free press, and it's, it's scary," "Fast Politics" host Molly Jong-Fast said.

Jim Pattison won't sell U.S. warehouse proposed as new ICE facility | CBC News Jim Pattison Developments has announced it will not sell an industrial building in Ashland, Va., that was set to be turned into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility.

Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center

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Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Arrested for Reporting — Russia’s Playbook in America When I saw the news this morning that Don Lemon and Georgia Fort had been arrested, my first thought was this is what happens in Russia, and the decades I spent documenting how the Kremlin dismantled ...

When I saw the news of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort's arrest for reporting on a protest, my immediate thought was this is exactly what happens in Russia. My latest... olgalautman.substack.com/p/don-lemon-...

Trump's minions are pressuring prosecutors to charge ICE protesters based on scant evidence Don Lemon is just the tip of the iceberg.

SCOOP: Don Lemon is just the tip of the iceberg.

Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned or are preparing to do so, in part because the Trump administration has asked them to file criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters without appropriate evidence.

Trump's minions are pressuring prosecutors to charge ICE protesters based on scant evidence Don Lemon is just the tip of the iceberg.

SCOOP from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. The Trump admin is pressuring Minnesota federal prosecutors to criminally charge anti-ICE protesters based on weak, one-sided evidence. Those attorneys are PISSED. And more are resigning.

FSA confirms presence of toxin in some Nestlé SMA baby formula products Nestlé has already recalled several batches due to concerns they may trigger nausea and vomiting The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has confirmed the presence of a toxin that can cause food poisoning in some Nestlé baby formula products. At the start of this month, the Swiss food and drink company recalled several batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula due to concerns they contained cereulide, which can trigger nausea and vomiting when consumed. Continue reading...

FSA confirms presence of toxin in some Nestlé SMA baby formula products

Heed the Warnings for USA and UK:
"This is what the normalisation of authoritarianism looks like in real time: state violence reframed as regrettable procedure, protest recast as existential threat, and dissent pre-emptively delegitimised as manipulation."
#Project2025
#HeritageFoundation

Nigel Farage meets UAE ministers and drums up donations on Dubai trip Reform UK leader speaks at GB News event also attended by industry minister on second UAE visit in two months

Lots of Russian spies and oligarchs in Dubai (eg. A Lebedev). It’s like Lisbon or Casablanca in WW2

Nigel Farage meets UAE ministers and drums up donations on Dubai trip

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The President of the "United" States of America.

This is what this is all about in a nutshell. He is no more than a senile, mentally challenged old man, who is willing to have people murdered to satisfy his quest for revenge.

The attack on Ilhan Omar and Trump’s destructive politics of violence The president's rhetoric portends worse to come.

Rep. Ilhan Omar was quickly and rightly hailed for her fortitude on Tuesday night. All I could think was, thank God she’s not dead.

My latest on Trump's relentless, destructive politics of violence www.motherjones.com/politics/202...